four-leaf clover
noun
a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
four-leaf clovers
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pluralof four-leaf clover.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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As for those hearts, stars, diamonds and four-leaf clovers floating from the trumpets?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024
Pictures of the seized packages had the Batman symbol as well as black four-leaf clovers on them.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
She sees their childhood in such direct contrast to her own growing up in Cleveland, Mississippi, where she would search for four-leaf clovers and catch lightning bugs to put them on her ear.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
Nekisha Durrett multiplies a family keepsake into a field of four-leaf clovers, white and ceramic rather than green and vegetal.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2018
Like crickets, and like grasshoppers; like lizards and four-leaf clovers.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
